Chicago Law Firms Shine at the Legal Marketing Association Chicago Your Honor Awards

More than two dozen entries were submitted in LMA Chicago's regional competition, with entries from Chicago, Indianapolis, Madison and Detroit law firms. Submissions were judged on a variety of criteria, including product, strategy and results. Winners were revealed at the awards ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 21 at Hotel Sax Chicago.

Law firms were honored at the ceremony with an achievement award in the following categories:

• Identity Launch, Plunkett Cooney
• Promotional/Collateral Pieces, Freeborn & Peters and X-15 Creative Marketing LLC
• Recruiting or Professional Development, Freeborn & Peters and X-15 Creative Marketing LLC
• Sales/Business Development, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
• Web sites and Other Electronic Media, SmithAmundsen and Ward Nipper & Associates
• Advertising Campaigns, Thompson Coburn Fagel Haber
• Public Relations and Community Relations, Foley & Lardner LLP and Greentarget Global Group
• Promotional Item, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
• Best in Show, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP – Promotional Item

The highlight of the evening was the newest inductee into the LMA Chicago Hall of Fame, Mike Ralston. Ralston has dedicated more than twenty-five years of his time to the legal marketing profession. He was a founder of NLFMA – the predecessor organization to LMA. He was one of the early presidents of LMA and LMA Chicago, and he served on our chapter board many, many times. He is a frequent volunteer, most notably as chairperson for many committees, including the 2005 Midwest Conference. Ralston created marketing departments at two notable but now defunct law firms – Keck, Mahin & Cate and Hopkins & Sutter. He now serves as Director of Marketing & Busienss Development at Vedder Price.

LMA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs and maintaining the professional standards of the men and women involved in marketing within the legal profession. Now in its 23rd year, the Legal Marketing Association is the premier international organization for legal marketing and communications practitioners serving law firms and the legal industry.

LMA Chicago is one of the largest chapters of the Legal Marketing Association in the country with more than 300 members. Members come from small to large firms headquartered or with offices located in Chicago and surrounding counties and the Milwaukee, Detroit and Indianapolis regional areas.